I took this video with a Flip-cam back in Alllston, MA in March, 2009. I just found it on my hard drive and thought others might like it. It’s low-fi, but a lot of fun. (I would pay quite a bit of money for a handy camera that actually had good sound [...]
From this fun David Carson TED talk on design.
The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostered ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. — Unknown
Another great example of how technology often changes how we exchange information. Fun talk, worth watching.
David Carson was also interviewed in Helvetica. It’s [...]
Since Terry Tate has this awesome video which is making the rounds:
I thought I would collect some of my favorites from the past:
I’m re-posting this from Gen because it’s worth watching. Yes, it’s long, but Paul Krugman is funny and some of his words are creepily prescient.
In case you don’t know who James Howard Kunstler is, allow me introduce you. Mr. Kunstler is a very interesting man. I’ve been casually reading his stuff for the better part of a decade. And he’s notoriously cranky. Bruce Sterling included something that he wrote in a post on wired that [...]
After years and years of having the default theme for my weblog I finally went out and found a theme.
I’ve been browsing around for a few days now, not really happy with of the ones I came across but I finally found one I really like. It’s the Tarski theme. It’s reasonably configurable, [...]
Joi Ito has a link to something he built called a flowgram [tiny link]. What’s a flowgram? It lets you tell a story while a series of photos and web pages are shown to demonstrate what you’re talking about. I’m so used to static presentations that when I was first using it [...]
The entire episode is full of awesome. Go watch it. His feeds are pretty awesome, too. (Thanks go to Jonathan Zittrain who set up the moment.)
Images shamelessly stolen from Gen, Tristan and Melissa.
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